The CIA’s Hidden Hand in UFO Investigations During the Cold War
As sightings of unidentified flying objects surged in the early 1950s, internal concerns at the highest levels of U.S. intelligence began to take shape. A declassified summary of the Intelligence Advisory Committee’s (IAC) UFO deliberations reveals how seriously the...
Conscious Control: The CIA’s Early Blueprint for Drugged Interrogation
Before MK-Ultra had a name, before LSD entered the agency’s toolbox, U.S. intelligence was already sketching out a method to collapse resistance and extract confessions-one chemically induced blackout at a time. The document, simply titled "Interrogation", offers a...
The CIA Brainstormed Ways to Turn Translation Into Psychological Operations
It wasn’t just what was said-it was how it was said, and who translated it. A declassified document reveals that during the Cold War, the CIA convened a specialized brainstorming meeting to dissect the role of translation as a strategic tool-not just for information...
The U.S. Quietly Built a Manual for Total Incapacitation
While the world looked for bigger bombs, a small team of U.S. researchers was building something stranger: a guide to shutting people down-mentally, physically, and psychologically-without killing them. The Quarterly Technical Progress Report, a document spanning late...
